T-SPLOST foes want tax repealed and other transportation news nuggets By Thomas Wheatley – CL Atlanta * The Transportation Leadership Coalition, one of the grassroots groups that called for voters to reject the measure, want state lawmakers to repeal the law which enabled the referendum. The legislation included a penalty clause for counties that rejected

T-SPLOST Opponents Call for Repeal of Penalty on Regions that Voted “No” By Jonathan Shapiro – 90.1WABE news radio A group of T-SPLOST opponents is calling for a repeal of a financial penalty aimed at regions that rejected the transportation referendum. For those that voted “no” on the T-SPLOST, it’s about to get a lot

Counties face fallout from failed TSPLOST vote By Sandra Parrish WSB Radio One of the groups that came out against the transportation sales tax referendum earlier this week, now complains the counties in the nine regions where it failed will be penalized for their “no” votes. Jack Staver, chairman of the Transportation Leadership Coalition, says

Statement From Transportation Leadership Coalition 8/1/12 This has been a campaign for the text books – a hard-fought engagement on both sides. The tax proponents raised over $8 million; the grassroots raised far less. The tax proponents focused on their own special interest that would not alleviate traffic or create jobs but disproportionally tax the

Which Vision Should You Vote For? By Mike Lowry On Tuesday you will have an opportunity to directly influence the way that transportation planning and development is managed in the metro region. The pro-TSPLOST vision is to spend over 52 percent of your increased tax dollars on economic development for downtown Atlanta (MLK Center trolley,

The TSPLOST – Passage will obstruct progress By Ron Sifen The TSPLOST was supposed to be about reducing traffic congestion. The Atlanta Regional Commission has conceded that the TSPLOST projects list will do little to reduce regional commute times. The ARC says they are defining “alleviating traffic congestion” as meaning increasing the number of people

WSB TV’s Lori Geary covers the long awaited release of donors to the pro-TSPLOST campaign. Chief among them: highway contractors. But that’s OK, because as David Stockert, CEO of Post Properties and chairman of Citizens for Transportation Mobility says, “They’ve been decimated along with the rest of the construction business in this region with the